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Article: Dew of Death: The Story of Lewisite, America's World War I Weapon of Mass Destruction.
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- CML Army Chemical Review
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- January 1, 2006
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Dew of Death: The Story of Lewisite, America's Worm War I Weapon of Mass Destruction, Joel Vilensky, Indiana University Press, 2005.
Some historians believe that the Manhattan Project during World War II was without precedent. During World War I, the Chemical Warfare Service (CWS) undertook a secret weapons project to produce the arsenical blister agent, lewisite. The parallels between the two projects are not coincidental. The Dew of Death describes how prominent figures involved with the Manhattan Project were also chemical Soldiers engaged in the Lewisite Project during World War I.
Mr. Vilensky presents a comprehensive and complete history on a ...